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  • #1
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

  • #2
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

  • #3
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #4
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #5
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #6
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #7
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #8
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #9
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #10
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Breathe and let be.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #11
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #12
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #13
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #14
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #15
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #17
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #18
    Joseph Murphy
    “Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.”
    Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind



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